Are you a fan of Wendy’s restaurants? Wendy’s has been widely successful over the years due to their great tasting foods, but did you know that their menu includes a number of gluten free items as well?
Here at Gluten Free Restaurants, we’ve managed to research and verify the following items at Wendy’s are indeed gluten free and safe to eat (you can also view an online PDF version from Wendy’s official website here):
Wendy’s Meats:
- Hamburger Patty
- Grilled Chicken Breast+
Wendy’s Condiments:
- American Cheese
- Swiss Cheese
- Cheddar Cheese Sauce
- Bacon
- Lettuce
- Tomato
- Onion
- Ketchup
- Mustard
- Honey Mustard Sauce
- Special Thousand Island Sauce*
- Tartar Sauce*
- Sliced Dill Pickles
- Ranch Sauce
Wendy’s Baked Potatoes:
- Plain
- Sour Cream & Chives
- Bacon & Cheese*
- Broccoli & Cheese*
- Chili & Cheese*
- Buttery Best Spread+
Wendy’s Salads:
- Chicken Caesar Salad+ (without croutons)
- Mandarin Chicken® Salad+ (without Crispy Noodles and Oriental Sesame Dressing)
- Roasted Almonds
- Caesar Side Salad (without croutons)
- Side Salad
- Southwest Taco Salad
- Seasoned Tortilla Strips+
- Reduced Fat Acidified Sour Cream+
Wendy’s Side Items:
- Chili
- Hot Chili Seasoning Packet
- Shredded Cheddar Cheese
- Mandarin Oranges
- Strawberry Yogurt Squeezerz
Wendy’s Beverages:
- Coffee
- Tea
- Coca-Cola®
- Diet Coke®
- Sprite®
- Barq’s Root Beer*
- Coke Zero®*
- Dr. Pepper*
- Fanta® Orange*
- Hi-C® Flashin’ Fruit Punch*
- Minute Maid®Light Lemonade*
- Pibb Xtra*
- Dasani® Water*
- Nesquik® Low Fat Chocolate Milk
- Nesquik® Low Fat White Milk
Wendy’s Dressings:
- Ancho Chipotle Ranch Dressing
- Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing
- Classic Ranch Dressing
- Fat Free French Style Dressing*
- Italian Vinaigrette Dressing
- Honey Dijon Dressing
- Light Honey Dijon Dressing*
- Light Classic Ranch Dressing
- Supreme Caesar Dressing
- Thousand Island Dressing*
Wendy’s Frostys™:
- Chocolate FrostyTM
- Vanilla FrostyTM
- M&M’s® Candy Crumbles
Wendy’s Dipping Sauces:
- BBQ Nugget Sauce
- Sweet & Sour Nugget Sauce
- Honey Mustard Nugget Sauce
- Honey Nugget Sauce*
- Wild Buffalo Ranch Sauce*
- Heartland Ranch Sauce
* – Certain menu items may vary from store to store and may not be available at all locations.
+ – Contains maltodextrin.
As always, we recommend you inform Wendy’s of your dietary needs when placing your order to ensure they avoid cross-contamination, etc.
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Are they certain the Blue Cheese dressing is GF? It is usually “started” by rolling french bread in the culture, and it grows into cheese from there. All veined cheeses are on the “don’t eat” list.
the only CHICKEN that is GLUTEN-FREE at Wendy’s is the Ultimate Chicken Grill Fillet. The chicken used in all other recipes contains wheat. Here’s a link to the detailed nutrition guide. It gives you everything you need to know about everything they serve: http://www.wendys.com/food/pdf/us/nutrition.pdf
The french fries are GF as well. They’re cooked in their own fryer to avoid CC issues.
Careful- the fries ARE NOT gluten free! Check out the above link- it is really helpful.
I worked at Wendys for a few years. The fries ARE NOT gluten free. They ARE NOT cooked in their own fryer. They are cooked in the same fryers with the same oil that the nuggets and breaded chicken breasts are cooked in.
Just returned from Wendy’s. Which of the new salads are Gluten Free??????
I used to enjoy the SW Taco Salad.
I would love to know why Wendy’s only sells the grilled chicken sandwich as a whole sandwich. At Burger King you can purchase the chicken patty alone. The managers at Wendys are not very pleasant. Most people don’t understand the allergy but the manager should be more understanding. Wendy’s should train the managers to have more knowledge w/the food safety issues.
Wendy’s does not consider their fries to be gluten-free because they don’t have a dedicated fryer for the fries there. It has been established that most (if not all) blue cheeses are gluten-free, regardless of how they were started (with or without bread mold). The Canadian study on this type of cheese was first done in 1991 and in 1992 blue cheese was listed as “allowed” on the gf diet. The test was recently redone to prove that blue cheese is safe for those with celiac. http://www.glutenfreediet.ca/img/bluecheese.pdf Many restaurants still don’t know the deal on blue cheese so they just say it’s not gluten-free without checking into the particular brand they carry.